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...most beautiful woman, and everyone understood that. When a woman lost her man back then, she lost everything." But those days were supposed to be over, and for many couples, they are. There is no shortage of jilted husbands out there. As Manhattan divorce lawyer Eleanor Alter, who represented Mia Farrow in her proceedings against Woody Allen, puts it, "In most divorces, the fault is not so unequal. Two people have a drink together and they misbehave. Two people drift apart. These aren't heinous things. That's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HELL HATH NO FURY | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...second act, features Blackmer and Whiteside in a mock gunfight. Pantomiming guns with their hands, they climb on and over each other to a country western love song by Patsy Cline. The romantic undertones of the dance complicate this humorous scene, but even these more serious suggestions could not alter the general mood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It Has a Good Beat & You Can Dance to It | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

...describe the opening of the tunnel door as a "change [in] the demographic nature of the city," illegal under Geneva Convention laws concerning "occupied territories." This is another ridiculous charge. The tunnel in question has been in place for 25 centuries and opening up its back door does not alter the city's demographics. Secondly, Jerusalem is emphatically not an occupied city. The whole of Jerusalem is the undivided capital of the sovereign state of Israel, as President Clinton himself has affirmed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter Distorts Information About Opening Israeli Tunnel | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

...five years, the Department of Afro-American Studies has gone from having one professor to having a nationally commended program. But should Skip Gates take the credit? And can these academics really alter American social policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building the Best | 9/24/1996 | See Source »

...pages; $24.95), begins on a decidedly unpropitious note, an Author's Note, in fact, in which Theroux describes his novel as "an imaginary memoir" and goes on to say that "even an imagined life resembles one that was lived; yet in this I was entirely driven by my alter ego's murmur of 'what if?'" Groaning seems a proper response at this point. Oh boy, another self-regarding writer playing solipsistic games for his own amusement. Anything good on the tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: JUST THE FACTS (MAYBE...) | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

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